diff --git a/api/current.txt b/api/current.txt
index 8ad59fff2721c..41f6d6f26ba0d 100644
--- a/api/current.txt
+++ b/api/current.txt
@@ -1622,6 +1622,7 @@ package android {
     field @Deprecated public static final int yearListSelectorColor = 16843930; // 0x101049a
     field public static final int yesNoPreferenceStyle = 16842896; // 0x1010090
     field public static final int zAdjustment = 16843201; // 0x10101c1
+    field public static final int zygotePreloadName = 16844195; // 0x10105a3
   }
 
   public static final class R.bool {
@@ -6477,6 +6478,10 @@ package android.app {
     method public void onColorsChanged(android.app.WallpaperColors, int);
   }
 
+  public interface ZygotePreload {
+    method public void doPreload(android.content.pm.ApplicationInfo);
+  }
+
 }
 
 package android.app.admin {
diff --git a/core/java/android/app/ZygotePreload.java b/core/java/android/app/ZygotePreload.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..a295af352c0aa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core/java/android/app/ZygotePreload.java
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2019 The Android Open Source Project
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package android.app;
+
+import android.content.pm.ApplicationInfo;
+
+/**
+ * This is the interface to be implemented for the class that is specified by the
+ * {@link android.R.styleable#AndroidManifestApplication_zygotePreloadName
+ * android:zygotePreloadName} of the <application> tag.
+ *
+ * It is responsible for preloading application code and data, that will be shared by all
+ * isolated services that have the
+ * {@link android.R.styleable#AndroidManifestService_useAppZygote android:useAppZygote} attribute
+ * of the &lt;service&gt; tag set to <code>true</code>.
+ *
+ * Note that this implementations of this class must provide a default constructor with no
+ * arguments.
+ */
+public interface ZygotePreload {
+    /**
+     * This method is called once every time the Application Zygote is started. It is normally
+     * started the first time an isolated service that uses it is started. The Application Zygote
+     * will be stopped when all isolated services that use it are stopped.
+     *
+     * @param appInfo The ApplicationInfo object belonging to the application
+     */
+    void doPreload(ApplicationInfo appInfo);
+}
diff --git a/core/java/android/content/pm/ApplicationInfo.java b/core/java/android/content/pm/ApplicationInfo.java
index 5d6d1444eaf32..1358bc25a07b1 100644
--- a/core/java/android/content/pm/ApplicationInfo.java
+++ b/core/java/android/content/pm/ApplicationInfo.java
@@ -1192,6 +1192,9 @@ public class ApplicationInfo extends PackageItemInfo implements Parcelable {
     /** @hide */
     public boolean hiddenUntilInstalled;
 
+    /** @hide */
+    public String zygotePreloadName;
+
     /**
      * Represents the default policy. The actual policy used will depend on other properties of
      * the application, e.g. the target SDK version.
@@ -1533,6 +1536,7 @@ public class ApplicationInfo extends PackageItemInfo implements Parcelable {
         compileSdkVersionCodename = orig.compileSdkVersionCodename;
         mHiddenApiPolicy = orig.mHiddenApiPolicy;
         hiddenUntilInstalled = orig.hiddenUntilInstalled;
+        zygotePreloadName = orig.zygotePreloadName;
     }
 
     public String toString() {
@@ -1609,6 +1613,7 @@ public class ApplicationInfo extends PackageItemInfo implements Parcelable {
         dest.writeString(appComponentFactory);
         dest.writeInt(mHiddenApiPolicy);
         dest.writeInt(hiddenUntilInstalled ? 1 : 0);
+        dest.writeString(zygotePreloadName);
     }
 
     public static final Parcelable.Creator<ApplicationInfo> CREATOR
@@ -1682,6 +1687,7 @@ public class ApplicationInfo extends PackageItemInfo implements Parcelable {
         appComponentFactory = source.readString();
         mHiddenApiPolicy = source.readInt();
         hiddenUntilInstalled = source.readInt() != 0;
+        zygotePreloadName = source.readString();
     }
 
     /**
diff --git a/core/java/android/content/pm/PackageParser.java b/core/java/android/content/pm/PackageParser.java
index eb59cfc0fc4ba..1fab443629a4f 100644
--- a/core/java/android/content/pm/PackageParser.java
+++ b/core/java/android/content/pm/PackageParser.java
@@ -3907,6 +3907,9 @@ public class PackageParser {
             outError[0] = "Invalid class loader name: " + ai.classLoaderName;
         }
 
+        ai.zygotePreloadName = sa.getString(
+                com.android.internal.R.styleable.AndroidManifestApplication_zygotePreloadName);
+
         sa.recycle();
 
         if (outError[0] != null) {
diff --git a/core/java/com/android/internal/os/AppZygoteInit.java b/core/java/com/android/internal/os/AppZygoteInit.java
index 6ba584d76ee84..0e83e41a74239 100644
--- a/core/java/com/android/internal/os/AppZygoteInit.java
+++ b/core/java/com/android/internal/os/AppZygoteInit.java
@@ -17,13 +17,15 @@
 package com.android.internal.os;
 
 import android.app.LoadedApk;
+import android.app.ZygotePreload;
+import android.content.ComponentName;
 import android.content.pm.ApplicationInfo;
 import android.net.LocalSocket;
 import android.util.Log;
 
 import java.io.DataOutputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
-import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException;
+import java.lang.reflect.Constructor;
 import java.lang.reflect.Method;
 
 /**
@@ -76,20 +78,29 @@ class AppZygoteInit {
 
             Zygote.allowAppFilesAcrossFork(appInfo);
 
-            Class<?> cl;
-            Method m;
-            try {
-                cl = Class.forName(appInfo.packageName + ".ZygotePreload", true, loader);
-                m = cl.getMethod("doPreload");
-                m.setAccessible(true);
-                m.invoke(null);
-            } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
-                // Don't treat this as an error since an app may not want to do any preloads
-                Log.w(TAG, "No ZygotePreload class found for " + appInfo.packageName);
-            } catch (NoSuchMethodException | IllegalAccessException | InvocationTargetException e) {
-                Log.e(TAG, "AppZygote application preload failed for "
-                        + appInfo.packageName, e);
+            if (appInfo.zygotePreloadName != null) {
+                Class<?> cl;
+                Method m;
+                try {
+                    ComponentName preloadName = ComponentName.createRelative(appInfo.packageName,
+                            appInfo.zygotePreloadName);
+                    cl = Class.forName(preloadName.getClassName(), true, loader);
+                    if (!ZygotePreload.class.isAssignableFrom(cl)) {
+                        Log.e(TAG, preloadName.getClassName() + " does not implement "
+                                + ZygotePreload.class.getName());
+                    } else {
+                        Constructor<?> ctor = cl.getConstructor();
+                        ZygotePreload preloadObject = (ZygotePreload) ctor.newInstance();
+                        preloadObject.doPreload(appInfo);
+                    }
+                } catch (ReflectiveOperationException e) {
+                    Log.e(TAG, "AppZygote application preload failed for "
+                            + appInfo.zygotePreloadName, e);
+                }
+            } else {
+                Log.i(TAG, "No zygotePreloadName attribute specified.");
             }
+
             try {
                 DataOutputStream socketOut = getSocketOutputStream();
                 socketOut.writeInt(loader != null ? 1 : 0);
diff --git a/core/res/res/values/attrs_manifest.xml b/core/res/res/values/attrs_manifest.xml
index de6468dbb72a4..752d2e108fdb9 100644
--- a/core/res/res/values/attrs_manifest.xml
+++ b/core/res/res/values/attrs_manifest.xml
@@ -1113,6 +1113,15 @@
          -->
     <attr name="classLoader" format="string" />
 
+    <!-- Name of the class that gets invoked for preloading application code, when starting an
+         {@link android.R.attr#isolatedProcess} service that has
+         {@link android.R.attr#useAppZygote} set to <code>true</code>. This is a fully
+         qualified class name (for example, com.mycompany.myapp.MyZygotePreload); as a
+         short-hand if the first character of the class is a period then it is appended
+         to your package name. The class must implement the {@link android.app.ZygotePreload}
+         interface. -->
+    <attr name="zygotePreloadName" format="string"/>
+
     <!-- If set to <code>true</code>, indicates to the platform that this APK is
          a 'feature' split and that it implicitly depends on the base APK. This distinguishes
          this split APK from a 'configuration' split, which provides resource overrides
@@ -1641,6 +1650,7 @@
         <!-- If {@code true} the user is prompted to keep the app's data on uninstall -->
         <attr name="hasFragileUserData" />
 
+	<attr name="zygotePreloadName" />
     </declare-styleable>
     <!-- The <code>permission</code> tag declares a security permission that can be
          used to control access from other packages to specific components or
@@ -2297,17 +2307,18 @@
         <!-- If true, and this is an {@link android.R.attr#isolatedProcess} service, the service
              will be spawned from an Application Zygote, instead of the regular Zygote.
              <p>
-             The Application Zygote will pre-initialize the application's class loader,
-             and call a static callback into the application to allow it to perform
+             The Application Zygote will first pre-initialize the application's class loader. Then,
+             if the application has defined the {@link android.R.attr#zygotePreloadName} attribute,
+             the Application Zygote will call into that class to allow it to perform
              application-specific preloads (such as loading a shared library). Therefore,
              spawning from the Application Zygote will typically reduce the service
              launch time and reduce its memory usage. The downside of using this flag
              is that you will have an additional process (the app zygote itself) that
              is taking up memory. Whether actual memory usage is improved therefore strongly
              depends on the number of isolated services that an application starts,
-             and how much memory those services save by preloading. Therefore, it is
-             recommended to measure memory usage under typical workloads to determine
-             whether it makes sense to use this flag. -->
+             and how much memory those services save by preloading and sharing memory with
+             the app zygote. Therefore, it is recommended to measure memory usage under
+             typical workloads to determine whether it makes sense to use this flag. -->
         <attr name="useAppZygote" format="boolean" />
         <!-- If this is a foreground service, specify its category. -->
         <attr name="foregroundServiceType" />
diff --git a/core/res/res/values/public.xml b/core/res/res/values/public.xml
index ec1bac1a41d62..b5266e247e3af 100644
--- a/core/res/res/values/public.xml
+++ b/core/res/res/values/public.xml
@@ -2936,6 +2936,7 @@
         <public name="minAspectRatio" />
         <!-- @hide @SystemApi -->
         <public name="inheritShowWhenLocked" />
+        <public name="zygotePreloadName" />
     </public-group>
 
     <public-group type="drawable" first-id="0x010800b4">